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Pregnancy Meal Ideas

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During pregnancy it’s essential to eat a balanced diet rich in vitamins and nutrients, both to keep you healthy and energized during a demanding time for your body, and to help your baby form vital organs and brain power. These meal ideas all incorporate those essential elements for good health, and are also delicious for those ladies suffering from food aversions. These meals all contain these all-important nutrients for you and the baby: Protein – the building block of life, it’s important to get at least 80g of protein each day to help form your developing baby. Complex Carbohydrates – whole grains, fruits, and vegetables provide lots of fiber to not only carry the nutrients through your body but to help keep your digestive system, which can be finicky during pregnancy, running smoothly. These foods also provide your body with the all-important vitamins and minerals needed for bone development, prevention of birth defects, prevention of ...

Our Curriculum

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The ELC provides the foundations for children to make the most of their abilities and talents as they grow. The program at the ELC is based on the international Preschool Curriculum (IPC) as its only guide for students from 6 weeks to 3 years old. After that age, and for students from 3 years and 6 years we will adopt the states common core curriculum along the IPC so we will prepare the students for the first year in the elementary level before they leave the ELC. To meet the needs of our students, we are concerned to provide a program from 6 weeks - 6 years old children’s physical, social, emotional, aesthetics and intellectual development of the individual child, with no one area standing in isolation from the others. A special program for children of 3 months to 1 year (based on the sensory program) is also offered. Our daily routine provides fun activities, based on thematic units that are specifically designed around the IPC. Each learning area in the program fosters the stu...

Vernus Early Learning Centre

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Motto: Developing necessary skills for future success At Vernus ELC, we are proud in providing a stimulating, safe and nurturing early learning environment ensuring you and your child are comfortable. At VELC we value each child as a unique individual, and strive to promote the growth of the whole child social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual. The staff strives to develop positive attitudes about the learning process by encouraging children to explore and discover, to ask questions, to respond to others, to be responsible, to problem solve, to create, to enjoy books and to actively play. This play develops a child’s basis for developing meaningful social interactions, creative problem-solving skills, and a wide range of communication and physical abilities. Our curriculum supports this philosophy, while regular communication, community events and parent participation cultivate strong relationships among our families and staff. These experiences help children to conceptualiz...

Vernus Early Learning Centres

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Who we are: VELCs are early learning centres based in JLT and Umm Suqeim. The centres are managed by EduHub investment ( www .edu-hub.ae  ) and offer an integrated program of International Preschool Curriculum program (the ELCs are an IPC franchisee) IPC and American Common Core Curriculum Standards ( CCSS). They encompasses nursery to KG2, serving children from the age of six weeks to six years. Our VELCs are committed to providing parents with the very best start for their children. Arabic language and UAE traditional values underpin the work of the ELC and these influence our care of the individual. We are keen to offer third language also. French language is given as a third language for all the children and parents have the chance to choose Russian as an additional fourth language. VELC provides a warm, safe nurturing environment in which to grow and develop. Honoring children as an individual and, embracing them in a loving environment, cultivates a child who is confident ...